What may elicit a thumbs up from Miss Manners in the U.S. may not elsewhere in the world. Learn 13 examples of good and bad manners around the world.
Juxtaposition can also be used at the character level. For example, two characters can be foils for each other, juxtaposing their various qualities to highlight their differences. Think of the dignified Dr. Jekyll and the wild Mr. Hyde or the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Wi...
An allegory is anarrative storythat conveys a complex, abstract, or difficult message. It achieves this through storytelling. Rather than having to explain the pitfalls of arrogance and the virtues of persistence, a writer can instead tell a tale about a talking tortoise and a haughty hare. Hum...
There are four essential literary genres, and all are driven by essential questions. Then, within each of those essential genres are genres and subgenres. We will look at all of these in turn, below, as well as several examples of each. An important note:There are individual works that fi...
This first example is from the play's opening scene and it is part of a charm chanted by witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. In this particular scene, the oxymoron "fair is foul, and foul is fair" speaks to the witches' evil character. ...
Selective breeding, the practice of mating individuals with desired traits as a means of increasing the frequency of those traits in a population. In selective breeding, the breeder attempts to isolate and propagate the genotypes (genetic constitutions)
In "The Pardoner's Tale," a story in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a character known as the Pardoner asserts that greed is the root of all evil, and illustrates the point using an allegory in which three drunken men set out to find a character known as "Death," but find a small ...
The line was designed by famed makeup artist Pat McGrath, and it features two styles: the Light Side and the Dark Side, which loyal "Star Wars" fans will recognize as the sides of good and evil in the movies.Why the Lucasfilm Co-branding Campaign Works...
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Good bet! Without car trouble or an earthquake, you’re going to make it! You’re reliable! You’re her kind of guy! There’s a good chance she’ll fall in love with you. “Reliable” is a golden virtue, if not THE golden virtue. Being reliable is like the sun and the moon—...